AFK Post: Screw the current events

Howdy,

Its mid April, and I haven’t been interested in participating in anything online in months. For obvious reasons. Yes this is political. Feel free to skip it. IDC.

I was so hopeful in NOV. Ugh.

I was laid off at the end of OCT. Not a huge deal IMO; I tend to work at startups, Marketing and HR are the first things to go. Pretty much been laid off all the last jobs I’ve had. Tech meh.

Then my partner got laid off in DEC. Obviously election in between, but you know, still hopeful. So we took this opportunity to move. We knew we didn’t want to live in Denver forever. The main reasons being the climate, to dry for us – and the altitude was making me sick. I developed lung issues which – yes is rare. Never had asthma before but my goodness, it sucked. So we packed out things and planned to move in with family for while this whole politics thing continued. We didn’t want to spend on rent since we would exhaust the savings much faster, but also just knowing we didn’t want to stay there it made it pretty easy to just pack the POD and go. I miss friends, and the snow so much but yeah. Man the Mt views…but yeah.

Finn, the bunny, got sick in JAN. I am actually so happy to have been laid off because he got super sick fast, and passed in late March. It was so fast. He was doing okay until the last week, then we were struggling, the steroids for his thymoma were just not working on him and he was 10+ so surgery was not an option. It was awful and we are devastated still. It’s going to be so hard to unpack his extra toys when we finally settle.

It’s April and I am still job hunting, going to start freelancing here soon, and we’ve been here in family house for months now. You know it can be stressful staying with family and I feel guilty sometimes taking up space. I miss my stuff D: too. It’s just how it is, and it’s not bad by any means. We are lucky to have both sides of our parents who would love us to live with them permanently. Seriously they would and we are blessed for it.

So we’ve just been struggling too. I know so many others are struggling. We are in Florida, and I’ve been watching the protest and trying to stay on top of those things. We’ve been exploring the area, going on day trips, etc nothing to much. Eating great good and lightly. I am still on Ozempic until end of JUN to see how I do, our POD is stashed in Aurora, CO and we’re just sorta waiting better times.

I have started taking on freelance work and I am working to revive the digital stuff on my side. I was hoping it would just be two months, but we are approaching the end of April and jobs are scarce man. I made a list of things I want to work on, and I am plan to hit them. I want to write, art, and read pretty regular again. We’ve lived pretty, whatever the last month+ and I am so over it. I like routine and schedules.

So we’ll see. I want to write more, I will be back dating some articles from the new year.

I am adding new categories, such as budget and writing, reading, hopefully.

I am going to rebuild my store on the site here, as I was updating Etsy I saw it charges 0.60$ for every listing D: that’s insane, so going to post the items here, and push to the site more. I plan to put some up on Etsy too, the popular ones. I want to focus on the inserts for now, redo the planner a bit, and add some goal setting stuff. I want to do a colorful version as well.

I got some art projects in mind as well, but we’ll see. I am so disappointed to not have my items with me T_T like my stickers, etc. I should have planned better. But hindsight man. I shoulda packed a few things better overall.

I also want to start doing community engagement stuff, so I will bring back the newsletter, plan to launch the journal prompts one and work together stuff. Specifically around digital stuff. So we’ll see. I plan to post that stuff and you’ll get updates in your in the resource club already, so you won’t miss that, if you are still reading.

Basically I have time, am tired of being ‘on vacation’ and now need to find things to do. SO OVER FOCUS time.

It’s been a rough start to 2025, so many. I can’t even imagine war – or losing your loved ones to some BS going on right now. I know a lot of us are all trying to get it together and hold the line. So I want to bring more community around that I think.

I am the most grateful I got to spend so much time with the rabbit, I miss Finn so much D: my baby. We didn’t know at the time, but us being home with him these last few months probably made him very happy.

On wards, to new things in 2025. If you are having troubles, I am sorry. Truly, and you can absolutely complain in my comments or discord and I will understand and sympathize, or just listen.